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 was always exceeding simple. It admitted of few incidents."--Blair's Rhet., p. 470. "Their best tragedies make not a deep enough impression on the heart."--Ib., p. 472. "The greatest genius on earth, not even a Bacon, can be a perfect master of every branch."--Webster's Essays, p. 13. "The verb OUGHT is only used in the indicative [and subjunctive moods]."--Dr. Ash's Gram., p. 70. "It is still a greater deviation from congruity, to affect not only variety in the words, but also in the construction."-- Kames, El. of Crit., ii, 28. "It has besides been found that, generally, students attend those lectures more carefully for which they pay."--Dr. Lieber, Lit. Conv., p. 65. "This book I obtained through a friend, it being not exposed for sale."--Woolsey, ib., p. 76. "Here there is no manner of resemblance but in the word drown."--Kames, El. of Crit., ii, 163. "We have had often occasion to inculcate, that the mind passeth easily and sweetly along a train of connected objects."--Ib., ii, 197. "Observe the periods when the most illustrious persons flourished."--Worcester's Hist., p. iv. "For every horse is not called Bucephalus, nor every dog Turk."--Buchanan's Gram., p. 15. "One can scarce avoid smiling at the blindness of a certain critic."--Kames, El. of Crit., ii, 257. "Provided always, that we run not into the extreme of pruning so very close, so as to give a hardness and dryness to style."--Jamieson's Rhet., p. 92; Blair's, 111. "Agreement is when one word is like another in number, case, gender or person."--Frost's Gram., p. 43. "Government is when one word causes another to be in some particular number, person or case."--Ibid. "It seems to be nothing more than the simple form of the adjective, and to imply not either comparison or degree."--Murray's Gram., 2d Ed., p. 47.

EXERCISE VIII.--CONJUNCTIONS.

"The Indians had neither cows, horses, oxen, or sheep."--''Olney's Introd. to Geog.'', p. 46. "Who have no other object in view, but, to make a show of their supposed talents."--Blair's Rhet., p. 344. "No other but these, could draw the attention of men in their rude uncivilized state."--Ib., p. 379. "That he shall stick at nothing, nor nothing stick with him."--Pope. "To enliven it into a passion, no more is required but the real or ideal presence of the object."--''Kames, El. of Crit.'', i, 110. "I see no more to be made of it but to-rest upon the final cause first mentioned."--Ib., i, 175. "No quality nor circumstance contributes more to grandeur than force."--Ib., i, 215. "It being a quotation, not from a poet nor orator, but from a grave author, writing an institute of law."--Ib., i, 233. "And our sympathy cannot be otherwise gratified but by giving all the succour in our power."--Ib., i, 362. "And to no verse, as far as I know, is a greater variety of time necessary."--Ib., ii, 79. "English Heroic verse admits no more but four capital pauses."--Ib., ii, 105. "The former serves for no other purpose but to make harmony."--Ib., 231. "But the plan was not perhaps as new as some might think it."--Literary Conv., p. 85. "The impression received would probably be neither confirmed or corrected."--Ib., p. 183. "Right is nothing else but what reason acknowledges."--Burlamaqui, on Law, p. 32. "Though it should be of no other use but this."--BP. WILKINS: Tooke's D. P., ii, 27. "One hope no sooner dies in us but another rises up."--Spect., No. 535. "This rule implies nothing else but the agreement of an adjective with a substantive."--Adams Latin Gram., p. 156; Gould's, 129. "There can be no doubt but the plan of exercise pointed out at page 132, is the best that can be adopted."--Blair's Gram., p. viii. "The exertions of this gentleman have done more than any other writer on the subject."--DR. ABERCROMBIE: ''Rec. in Murray's Gram.'', Vol. ii, p. 306. "No accidental nor unaccountable event ought to be admitted."--''Kames, El. of Crit.'', ii, 273. "Wherever there was much fire and vivacity in the genius of nations."--Jamieson's Rhet., p. 5. "I aim at nothing else but your safety."--Walker's Particles, p. 90. "There are pains inflicted upon man for other purposes except warning."--Wayland's Moral Sci., p. 122. "Of whom we have no more but a single letter remaining."--Campbell's Pref. to Matthew. "The publisher meant no more but that W. Ames was the author."--Sewel's History, Preface, p. xii. "Be neether bashful, nor discuver uncommon solicitude."--Webster's Essays, p. 403. "They put Minos to death, by detaining him so long in a bath, till he fainted."-- Lempriere's Dict. "For who could be so hard-hearted to be severe?"-- Cowley. "He must neither be a panegyrist nor a satirist."--Blair's Rhet., p. 353. "No man unbiassed by philosophical opinions, thinks that life, air, or motion, are precisely the same things."--''Dr. Murray's Hist. of Lang.'', i, 426. "Which I had no sooner drank, but I found a pimple rising in my forehead."--ADDISON: Sanborn's Gram., p. 182. "This I view very important, and ought to be well understood."--Osborn's Key, p. 5. "So that neither emphases, tones, or cadences should be the same."--Sheridan's Elocution, p. 5.

"You said no more but that yourselves must be   The judges of the scripture sense, not we."--Dryden, p. 96.

EXERCISE IX.--PREPOSITIONS.

"To be entirely devoid of relish for eloquence, poetry, or any of the fine arts, is justly construed to be an unpromising symptom of youth."--Blair's Rhet., p. 14. "Well met, George, for I was looking of you."--Walker's Particles, p. 441. "There is another fact worthy attention."--Channing's Emancip., p. 49. "They did not gather of a Lord's-day, in costly temples."--The Dial, No. ii, p. 209. "But certain ideas have, by convention between those who speak the same language, been agreed to be represented by certain articulate sounds."--Adams's Rhet., ii, 271. "A careful study of the language is previously requisite, in all who aim at writing it properly."--Blair's Rhet., p. 91. "He received his reward in a small place, which he enjoyed to his death."--Notes to the Dunciad, B. ii, l. 283. "Gaddi, the pupil of Cimabue, was not unworthy his